How do you make ground pepper powder?

ace · Jun 16, 2008

I always grow several types of peppers,and I do dry some,but have never made pepper powders to use.could any one tell me how you do it??
thanks.....

abelman · Jun 16, 2008

Texas Hunter has all the bases covered, welcome aboard

erain · Jun 16, 2008

exactly!!!

desertlites · Jun 16, 2008

I love making smoking my own pepper- so much to learn-trial and error-but keep trying.

tn_bbq · Jun 16, 2008

If you're looking to make more than a Tablespoon, I'd take T-H advice and get a coffee gringer. If you're looking for just a little bit, a manual pepper mill should work.

I keep a couple pepper mills around. One for your standard black peppercorns & one for crushed red pepper. I use the red pepper one for pizza & spaghetti, etc. because I don't like digging those "big" flakes out of my teeth.

I've even got one for rock salt.

ace · Jun 18, 2008

I have a spice grinder (aka MrCoffe grinder) and it works well on pepper corns and cummin seeds and such,but it will not powder chilies. How do you all dry your peppers?

desertlites · Jun 18, 2008

window sill on the southside here.

ace · Jun 18, 2008

I cant get the hang of posting Pic;s yet.

supervman · Aug 25, 2008

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richoso1 · Aug 25, 2008

Everyone has givn you good tips and ideas, make sure it is really dry before grinding, or the oils can clump up your powder. Grind on bro.

richtee · Aug 25, 2008

One thing Smitty does is grind the peppers thru a hand meat grinder with a coarse plate first, then gives that some additional drying time before he fine grinds in a processor.

coyote · Aug 25, 2008

do not know if you have tried it. But since I have joined this forum. I put a lot of peppers on the smoker and dry them there, some times they do not seem to dry competly so I set em in the sun for a couple days. if you slow smoke them they are fantastic tasting in recipes. they make your grinder smell good..lol.

fanciesmom · Aug 27, 2008

I like to toast the dry peppers in a cast iron skillet before I try to grind them. It really intensifies the flavor and it might just dry out any last traces of moisture. I just use the old coffee grinder for spices, etc. and the ground peppers are fantastic. Never a problem.

jminion · Aug 27, 2008

If you want to do much grinding a Burr grinder will be freind in the long run.

walking dude · Aug 27, 2008

i JUST made up some cayenne, jap ground pepper and hot pepper flakes

i let em hang for a couple days, then use my dehydrator for couple days, then crush up abit in a plastic baggie, then into the grinder

hanging peppers......

drying peppers.......

i let em dry till they are of the "SNAP" consistancy, where you press on em, they want to crush......

when i do hot pepper flakes, i put em into a plastic bag, and crush by hand........i don't want POWDER, but like what you get in a pizza joint

upper left, cayenne powder, upper right peppers i keep whole and will grind up as i need.......lower left, the hot pepper flakes, and lower right, the jap powder.........

its a pretty simple and easy thing to do/make.........hope this helps

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